The Anti-Adventurers (Adventurers)

The Anti_Adventurers is the working name for an upcoming Adventurers story arc. Adventurers members are invited to contribute their alternate evil version's story here.

Work under the following assumptions about the alternate Adventurers:

1) They are criminals, not global conquerers

2) They exist in a parallel reality - this isn't just a bad dream!

(Will add more criteria as we go)

Costumes here. If you're planning on designing henchmen for your particular villain set, feel free to post the image files on this page.

Dread Spider (Red Spider)

In the alternate reality, Cassandra Olsen is the daughter of ambitious mob accountant William Olsen. Cassandra was sent abroad to study dance, combat styles, and stealth. When she came home to Millennium City at age 18 on a permanent basis, Cassandra became her father's secret assassin. William's aspiration to climb the ladder within his crime family led him to use Cassandra to either eliminate rivals directly, or embarrass them by having Cassandra interfere with their operations. Few knew that Cassandra was secretly the Dread Spider - she was seen by many as the criminal world's most eligible bachelorette, and a notorious party girl.

Lady Vengeance (Lady Justice)

Developing super-senses during her teenage years, Allison Gray was constantly bombarded with cruelty, avarice, and injustice, the worst humanity had to offer. Using her skills as an engineer, Gray created a weaponized nano-suit that would become the death of numerous high-profile heroes. Lady Vengeance views herself as a reckoning, a punishment that society has called down upon itself for its crimes. Paranoid, unhinged, and extremely analytical, Lady Vengeance is typically five steps ahead of her challengers whether hero or villain. Money, possessions, and titles mean nothing to her, only delivering vengeance. Law enforcement and criminal organizations alike view her like a force of nature, something they desperately prepare for yet can only pray to avoid.

Doomweaver (Dreamweaver)

When young party girl Kaitlyn May was involved in a car accident with a PSI Industries chemical truck that killed her mother and left herself paralyzed from the waist down, she was gifted with incredible empathic and telekinetic powers. Unfortunately, with no one able to identify the cause of the foreign emotions dominating her mind, causing her drastic moodswings, she was declared insane and locked away, left to teach herself to master her abilities. Slowly but surely she did, willing herself to some semblance of sanity and control. Unfortunately, she had also developed a grudge. Her escape from the asylum was violent, and she reveled in her power. Kaitlyn became Doomweaver that night, her needles a collection of knives and syringes, her fabric the flesh and blood of anyone who stood in her way. Criminals began hiring her, giving her a focus for her anger, and the rage and fear and hate of others became a warm blanket around her mind. Whether she can no longer distinguish between her own emotions and others is a question not even she dares ask.

Stinger (Hornett)

We all have a breaking point, some are stronger than others. Young Liam's wasn't broken ... it was shattered.

His father was wrongfully convicted of a smuggling conspiracy. The law system had turned its back and were quick to sentence him. Liam was an aspiring marksman, man after school programs had made him a prodigy. But now, he was a broken teen, with no father to help him mend. His targets changed to suit the highest bidder. He became Stinger. Arrows, bullets, knives...if it was sharp or could be used as a projectile, it was his weapon. But his greatest weapon runs deep within him: in his blood pumps a powerful toxin granting him fast healing capabilities, increased strength, speed, and stamina. All courtesy of one Dr. Daniel Burke.

Flash Freeze (Meltdowner)

Originally naught but a common canadian college student, Michael was one of hopeful volunteers helping with experiments that were aimed at studying the possible triggering phenomena of various superpowers. Always a cape geek to say the least, he was nothing short of thrilled to realize he himself had the possibility to gain superhuman powers. Despite the possibility being supposedly strong one, however, he was dealt a bitter disappointment by stroke of misfortune: the tests were not enough to awaken his potential.

Needless to say, the young man was less than pleased by the fact. Going on to break into the laboratory in middle of the night, he proceeded to subject himself to the more extreme attempts to awaken his powers, and although the building and laboratory equipment suffered severe damage as a result of his foolhardy attempts, he managed to indeed awaken his ability: the ability of atomic-level matter control. In his case, it manifested mostly as ways to make things slower, down to atoms, and consequently gave Michael considerably strong cryokinetic abilities. His physical condition was also enhanced and altered by the mixtures of chemicals and exotic radiation types he had used in effort to unlock his potential, leaving him permanently pale and cold but also enhancing his constitution to easily superhuman levels.

If he had thought that his stunt would be viewed positively, however, he was rather mistaken. The scientists were both shocked and angry due to his blatant disregard for safety and destruction of property, and he was summarily handed off to authorities to go through due process and getting the "help" he'd need. Less than thrilled with the idea, Michael snapped and went on to use his abilities against the police and heroes attempting to contain him, fighting a running retreat all the way to the border before vanishing in snowstorm of his own making.

Afterwards, he proceeded to make his reappearance in United States under the name of Flash Freeze, now working as independent supervillain and mercenary. Having since paid for suit of armor that allows him to both fly and control his cryokinetic abilities with more precision, he makes little attempt to blend in or lead normal life, relishing his growing reputation among the law enforcement and fellow villains alike.